Eowyn

[poliphilo]

Storm Eowyn is passing through. Winds of over 100mph have been recorded off the Galway coast. Here her force has been abated somewhat but she's still making quite a noise.....

And the name? I thought it had to be Welsh and probably pronounced Owen.

Wrong. It's from Tolkien- and pronounced A-yow-in. He made it up. No one was called Eowyn before the Publication of Lord of the Rings.

Tolkien is so madly popular that I expect there are quite a lot of Eowyns around these days.

Is this the first time a storm has been given a name invented by a modern writer? 

Comments

[paserbyp]

I remember storms with women names which is reasonable, but women doesn’t agreed with me somehow?

[poliphilo]

These days they alternate between male and female names.

[cmcmck]

Owen in Welsh is Owain.

[poliphilo]

But it looks like it ought to be Welsh, doesn't it!

[cmcmck]

I think of it as closer to Anglo Saxon- it means something like 'delight in horses' which is very apt for a woman from a horse tribe.

[poliphilo]

You're right, Anglo-Saxon is more like it....